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Book (series)Report of the thirtheenth session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa. Entebbe, Uganda, 27-30 October 2004. / Rapport de la treizième session du Comité des pêches continentales pour l'Afrique. Entebbe, Ouganda 27-30 octobre 2004. 2005
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No results found.This document is the final report of the thirteenth session of the Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa (CIFA), which was held in Entebbe, Uganda, from 27 to 30 October 2004. The major topics discussed were: reports of intersessional activities; co-management arrangements as vehicles to responsible fisheries in the inland waters of Africa, strategies/mechanisms for improved reporting on inland capture fisheries and aquaculture; opportunities for, and requirements of a NACA-like mechanism in Africa; elements of technical guidelines for the control and responsible use of alien species in fisheries and aquaculture: key issues and opportunities for Africa; evolution of aquaculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; current economic opportunities in aquaculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; management of shared inland fisheries resources in sub-Saharan Africa; and proposals for the major topics for discussion at the fourteenth session of CIFA. -
MeetingReport of Entebbe 2016: Advancing a global work programme for rights-based approaches for fisheries
Entebbe, Uganda, 1 – 4 March 2016
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No results found.This document is the report of the Global Stakeholders’ workshop Entebbe 2016: Advancing a Global Work Programme for FAO on Tenure and Rights-Based Approaches for Fisheries and was produced with the technical and financial support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The Global Stakeholders’ Workshop was hosted and organized by the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO), which is an institution of the East African Community. The Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) of the United Nations provided technical and financial support to Entebbe 2016. The meeting was held at the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel and Convention Center between the 1st and 4th March 2016 in Entebbe, Uganda. The global workshop followed-up on other events on rights-based approaches for fisheries such as the global forum UserRights 2015 (Siem Reap, Cambodia, March 2015) and the informal think tank Friends of UserRights 2015 (Fiumicino, Italy, October 2015). Next to UserRights 2015 an d Friends of UserRights 2015, Entebbe 2016 took into account the results and information generated by recent consultations supporting the development of the Small-scale Fisheries Guidelines (SSF Guidelines). It specifically addressed issues related to concepts and terminology in fisheries tenure and provided improvements on information and knowledge for improving the global knowledge base on how to improve fisheries tenure on a practical level. The purpose of Entebbe 2016 was to: a) foster a mut ual understanding of the challenges faced by different groups in fisheries communities with regard to rights-based approaches for inland and marine fisheries; b) advance the skeleton global work programme on rights-based approaches in marine and inland fisheries1; and c) review the first part of the document A technical guide to support the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security. T he knowledge gained at Entebbe 2016 was used to summarize the report. -
DocumentNew approaches for the improvement of inland capture fishery statistics in the Mekong Basin 2002
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No results found.Inland capture fisheries provide a valuable contribution to food security in the Mekong Basin. However, official tiol estimates of this contribution have consistently been lower than estimates derived from more focused and localized fishery surveys. Thus, inland capture fisheries are undervalued by decision makers and development agencies. The poor state of knowledge on inland fisheries arises from the diverse ture of inland fisheries, that fisheries are often small-scale and dispersed over la rge areas, that inland fishers have idequate political power, the misconception that inland fisheries are not valuable, the local consumption or bartering of inland fisheries harvest, and the excessive power of certain stakeholders that do not want the actual value known. Development activities may then ippropriately focus on other sectors at the expense of rural communities that depend on inland fisheries. Accurate information on the contribution of inland fisheries is essential for responsible development. Key uses of accurate information identified at the Expert Consultation were: i) to determine the status and trends of the fishery and the environment, ii) to assess correctly the value of inland fisheries, iii) to allocate appropriate resources to the inland fishery sector, and iv) to fulfill intertiol obligations. In general, information collection in the Mekong is based on figures collected from government fishery officers assessing catch and effort data. These methods are best s uited to formal, large-scale fisheries, but are ippropriate for many of the small- scale, informal fisheries of the Mekong Basin. Altertive approaches are being developed and evaluated that include individual fishers, household and communities, and proxy measures of fishery yield. Besides the traditiol catch and effort surveys, approaches to improve information on inland fisheries were identified to include agriculture surveys, consumption studies (including household surveys), market surveys, g eo-referenced information, habitat classification and measurement, and establishment of co-magement or fishery user groups. In the lower Mekong Basin, the primary information need was yield. The informal and formal fishery sectors must be treated differently to obtain accurate information on both. The results from focused studies on particular habits or fisheries can be extrapolated to provide information on a wider area within the basin. There is a strong seasol component to the fisheries that must be considered and the capacity and status of local fishery officers must be increased in order to facilitate accurate reporting. Useful information already exists in project reports, with NGOs and IGOs, and in government offices that should be alyzed, and stakeholders in inland fisheries should form partnerships with other users of inland water resources.
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